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Month: April 2015

Ice Dragon and the Place of No Pity

Posted on April 30, 2015April 30, 2015 By kal 1 Comment on Ice Dragon and the Place of No Pity
Ice Dragon and the Place of No Pity
Dragons, Other reports, Quickie, Visions

We do spend an awful amount of time in the woe is me corner don’t we? Another term that we might use is self-pity. Of course this isn’t just reflected at ourselves we are often in a place of pitying others too. You might be wondering what this has to do with the topics in … Read More “Ice Dragon and the Place of No Pity” »

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Protection and how to make an Ass of yourself

Posted on April 28, 2015April 14, 2015 By kal No Comments on Protection and how to make an Ass of yourself
Protection and how to make an Ass of yourself
Energy cleansing, Healing, Protection, Quickie, Ritual

I have been around the block enough time to know better and yet I am still flabbergasted by my ability to not follow my own advice. Last night, I get a message from a friend…“I have a headache, can you send me some healing please?” A simple enough request and one that was easily fulfilled. … Read More “Protection and how to make an Ass of yourself” »

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Spring 2015-P6 – The Giant Task

Posted on April 27, 2015April 30, 2015 By Chris No Comments on Spring 2015-P6 – The Giant Task
Spring 2015-P6 – The Giant Task
Ancient Sites, Circles and Stones, Quests, Wheel of the Year

The Spring Equinox was complete. We had been all around the mid-eastern side of the country from Rutland, through Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, and now we were heading home via Derbyshire. Did someone say “heading home”? Not yet! As we dropped down into the end of Bakewell and idea began to stir in our febrile minds. … Read More “Spring 2015-P6 – The Giant Task” »

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Spirits: a changed belief

Posted on April 26, 2015April 27, 2015 By kal No Comments on Spirits: a changed belief
Spirits: a changed belief
Quickie, Spirits, Theory, Visions

I was happy, I really was. Or should I say I was happy with my internal system of beliefs. Yes, there were the odd messy things such as Tarot cards and Aliens to mention two. But on the whole I could live with those bumps in my understandings.

But then, along comes the monkey with a wrench and drops it square in a place where it hurts. What is one to do with such simian reprobates?

monkey wrench
monkey wrench

Let’s start at the beginning or rather up until a couple of weeks ago. At that time and a significant time before then, I was happy with my understandings of Death and the smidgen of time thereafter. As this blog notes (on several occasions) I have no aversion to the notion of shades as the energetic remains of people (and animals) death.

It’s just like a physical corpse, only in this instance an energetic one. And to a large extent I am still comfortable with that notion still. But what then about our spirits? Well therein lies the rub, as the Bard would say.

My faith (note the use of the word) was that spirits where not of this world. Now, when I say of this world, I include the energetic domains, parallel universes, other dimensions etc. They (in my Faith) were just not active or accessible in this world. Now you might be asking all kinds of questions such as ghosts, mediums and feelings of a person. But frankly there are umpteen answers to each of these questions and none that require the return or presence of the departed.

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Gratitude and Devotion – Spring Equinox 5

Posted on April 23, 2015April 23, 2015 By kal No Comments on Gratitude and Devotion – Spring Equinox 5
Gratitude and Devotion – Spring Equinox 5
Quickie

The spring equinox of 2015 was a fifteen hour affair. We visited churches, stones, wells, woods, stone circles and a maze. Some useful, some just to take a picture of and some were just not found. Was there a theme to the day? I didn’t set out with one but suspected that it would be … Read More “Gratitude and Devotion – Spring Equinox 5” »

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Spring 2015-P5 – Oak Staff of Sherwood

Posted on April 21, 2015April 23, 2015 By Chris No Comments on Spring 2015-P5 – Oak Staff of Sherwood
Staff, Trees

For a while I’ve felt that I needed a staff that is more practical than my too-obvious antlered yew staff. The yew staff was right at the time, and is good for ceremonial occasions, but is impractical, too decorative, and was fashioned by someone else. I felt I needed something more subtle that I can carve and work myself. Something that I more “me” and “now”. An oak staff, perhaps?

As we travelled homeward from Dale Hermitage we discussed potential source forests. The New Forest? No trees, mainly gorse bushes and not many oaks. The Forest of Dean? Lovely place, but it had the wrong vibe for me personally. The conversation paused for a moment while we assessed where we were.

We just happened to be around Nottingham heading towards Mansfield. Did we have time to search in Sherwood Forest? Wouldn’t that be a perfect place to get a new oak staff? We set the navigation and within the hour we were parking and preparing for our new outing.

8 - Sherwood Forest (1)

How To Find A Staff

Dowsing is a great method of finding your way on a spiritual path. It can lead you efficiently towards your goal. When dowsing leads you back to the same place but by a different route then you know that you are being taken to a special place. Such was the case as we made our way through Sherwood Forest, visiting the Major Oak first, then moving off the paths following the dowsing rods in meandering trajectory into the woodland.

8 - Sherwood Forest (16)

We passed many fallen branches on our journey. Each time we assessed their suitability, but the rods carried on regardless. They were all clearly “wrong” in some way. Mainly because they weren’t oak, I suspect. After fifteen minutes walk the rods swung together and crossed at a point in the forest where the trees were taller. I stopped to assess the area.

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Spring 2015-P4 – Dark Shadows at Dale

Posted on April 19, 2015April 12, 2015 By Chris No Comments on Spring 2015-P4 – Dark Shadows at Dale
Spring 2015-P4 – Dark Shadows at Dale
Angels, Dolmens and Chambers, Spirit of Place

The next stop on our Easterly journey was to another place that we had visited only once before – Dale Hermitage. The hermitage is a rock-cut chamber scoured from the sandstone above the village of Dale Abbey. The abbey of the village name if a scant ruin now, and the hermitage is much more energetically interesting.

As we walked through the wood the chill wind reminded us that last time we had visited it was Beltane and much warmer than today. We walked swiftly seeking out the sanctuary of the hermit’s shelter, yet I had time to stop at some new rabbit holes in order to pick up three small white quartz pebbles that caught my attention. We are just rock-shifters, after all.

6 - Dale Hermitage (1)
Descend steeply to Dale Hermitage

The Hermitage feels too nice to have Underworld qualities, despite being down some steep steps. Inside it relatively light and airy. We had lunch, took photos and milled around. It was like we were waiting for something to happen, or afraid to start something! I casually asked Kal why the place was considered sacred. Kal looked at me as though to say “Read The Flaming Manual!” and pointed me to the nearby information sign. Didn’t I have legs? I was just being lazy, so I went to read the sign.

6 - Dale Hermitage (8)
It’s a sign, I tell you! A miraculous sign!

The information sign told me that the Hermit of the Hermitage was guided by the appearance of Virgin Mary. Given what I had been reading recently this could just as easily have been Bride/Brigit. That’s a long discussion for another time.

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